Shaman questions

[phobus]

Skip buffing unless you've got plenty of mana to spare or you're not the main healer. The exception would be sow for the puller at least, and maybe str/dex for one or two people. Your stat buffs don't make much of a difference at that level, and cost mana that could otherwise be used to heal your tanks, which means you could be killing instead of giving out inconsequential stat increases.

Also, Blorris gives good advice about medding between casts of Inner Fire. Do that continuously to keep your group healed, and only break out the Light Healing when necessary. You can stop this at 19 when you get Healing, but until then it's good practice for when you get Cannibalize. To make it easier for you, you can setup a macro with this:

/stand
/pause 30, /cast #
/sit

Substitute # for the spell slot you have loaded with Inner Fire (i.e., if it's in the top slot, you'd put /cast 1). Keep your main tank targeted and just hit that button every at every med tick.

Once you get cannibalize, setup a similar macro for that. That makes the "canni dance" a bit less work.

Either way, you should be busy busy busy when killing. A shaman who's just sitting and medding is usually not efficient.